Western Standard News Update ｜ Rhode Island hockey shooting shocks community ｜ 17 Feb 2026
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Summary
The Alberta government is set to announce it will buy five new water bombers from De Havilland, the RCMP has admitted that outside British Columbia, the force only has seven officers assigned to combat hate crimes, and a transgendered man opened fire during a youth hockey game in Rhode Island on Monday killing his wife and one of his children before turning the gun on himself.
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From the Western Standard here's your news update. I'm your host Western
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Standard Chief Editor Dave Naylor and here's what you need to know. The Alberta
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government is set to announce later Tuesday it will buy five new water
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bombers from de Havilland. The RCMP has admitted that outside British Columbia
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the force only has seven officers assigned to combat hate crimes. Liberal
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Senator and former radio host Charles Adler says talk radio rewards white
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bigotry and quote sewer money unquote. And a transgendered man opened fire during a
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youth hockey game in Rhode Island on Monday killing his wife and one of his
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children before turning the gun on himself. And that's it for now.
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